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mike was dragging -- and louise went over to help. he returned fire and if he did he was hit a bullet as well. it just started off this whole chain where it was, the fire was relentless, there was no cover and truly at that moment there was no way out. >> alright, well i mean, we could probably tell you about the rest of the book but then you wouldn't buy it. with that said we are going to leave it at that and let you guys hopefully by the book but let's step back for one second from this mission. the afghan commanders were key part of this mission and that was one of the reasons why they were cast to go on this mission. at the time this was the third mission. they were brand-new unit. they were essentially created to carry out these high-value issues tick capture the high-value targets. they were mentored by american special forces. actually this team was the first team to go and mentor them are going at this point i have seen them in action a couple of times. as all ana units they are a little uneven but overall they have a good tra
mike was dragging -- and louise went over to help. he returned fire and if he did he was hit a bullet as well. it just started off this whole chain where it was, the fire was relentless, there was no cover and truly at that moment there was no way out. >> alright, well i mean, we could probably tell you about the rest of the book but then you wouldn't buy it. with that said we are going to leave it at that and let you guys hopefully by the book but let's step back for one second from this...
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c-span: louise barnett, author of "touched by fire," what's that title mean? >> guest: it comes from a speech that oliver wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. he said, "to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. and we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing." i haven't exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired and matured in a way that perhaps hasn't happened to every generation. c-span: but the subtitle on your book is "the life, death and mythic afterlife of george armstrong custer." who was general custer? >> guest: well, custer was part of that generation that was touched by the fire of the civil war. he had a splendid, heroic career as a general in the civil war. and then afterwards, the time when he becomes very interesting to me, at the age of 25, he was one of 135 unemployed major generals. he had to redirect his life. for the first few years, it wasn't easy. and then he found a new career on t
c-span: louise barnett, author of "touched by fire," what's that title mean? >> guest: it comes from a speech that oliver wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. he said, "to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. and we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing." i haven't exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired...
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. >> professor, what have we done scientifically since 1978 when louise brown was born? >> well, a key juncture to place five years later when scientists were able to freeze work prior preserve embryos. so since then we have dealt with the question of the embryos left over from the idea of treatments, many of which will not be used by our parents open to have children . and so that breakthrough have preservation, the ability to pile embryos and use them in resech
. >> professor, what have we done scientifically since 1978 when louise brown was born? >> well, a key juncture to place five years later when scientists were able to freeze work prior preserve embryos. so since then we have dealt with the question of the embryos left over from the idea of treatments, many of which will not be used by our parents open to have children . and so that breakthrough have preservation, the ability to pile embryos and use them in resech
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. >> the 1978 birth of louise brown. does that compare to the founding of a vaccine for polio, etc. as far as scientific experiments? >> i think so, absolutely. in fact it is a different kind of juncture. it's not another vaccine however important it's the first time in human history that a child is being conceived in a laboratory of side of the womb but it raises all kinds of issues about family life that we've been wrestling with, km, childhood, section of the from and what i focus on in this book is what it means for science and technology and where we want to draw the lines in the past and in the future about the kind of research that we are willing to count with embryos in the laboratory. >> professor banchoff, which you consider embryo politics to be a personal issue, a scientific issue, state issue, religious issue? >> i think it is all of those and as a political scientist most interested in the political dimension but what makes the book different from most political science books is the centrality of ethics and fundamental questions about life and death and human suffering
. >> the 1978 birth of louise brown. does that compare to the founding of a vaccine for polio, etc. as far as scientific experiments? >> i think so, absolutely. in fact it is a different kind of juncture. it's not another vaccine however important it's the first time in human history that a child is being conceived in a laboratory of side of the womb but it raises all kinds of issues about family life that we've been wrestling with, km, childhood, section of the from and what i...